Forcepoint Announces Promotion of Ryan Windham to Chief Executive Officer
11 Julio 2024 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Windham, formerly Chief Customer and Strategy Officer, succeeds
Manny Rivelo as part of planned leadership transition
Global security leader Forcepoint today announced the promotion
of Ryan Windham, Chief Customer and Strategy Officer, to Chief
Executive Officer (CEO), succeeding Manny Rivelo, who is retiring
from his position as CEO of the company. These transitions will be
effective immediately with Rivelo continuing to serve in an
advisory capacity through August 1, 2024.
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Ryan Windham to succeed Manny Rivelo as
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"The Board extends its gratitude for the many achievements
Forcepoint has accomplished under Manny’s leadership, including the
sale of the Government business and navigating through the
challenging pandemic years while driving the company’s
organizational and technological transformation," said Andrew
Kowal, Partner at Francisco Partners.
Windham brings 25 years of innovation and customer-first
leadership experience in cybersecurity, automation and AI/ML to his
role as CEO. As Chief Customer and Strategy Officer, he was
instrumental in leading critical cross-functional collaboration
across Customer Success, Product Management, and Go-to-Market
functions to optimally align both the business mission and product
roadmap to meet customers’ strategic business needs around the
globe.
Prior to joining Forcepoint in 2023, Windham was CEO at
AppViewX, a leader in low-code/no-code automation, helping to drive
a 95 percent customer retention rate and 80 percent subscription
revenue growth year-over-year. He also served as CEO at Cedexis,
acquired by Citrix in 2018, which utilized AI/ML to enable
real-time optimization of application delivery across clouds, CDNs
and data centers. Earlier in his career, Windham held senior
management positions at industry-leading security and
infrastructure companies including Imperva, F5 Networks and
Websense.
"Forcepoint is well positioned for the future as a leader in
uniquely prioritizing data security across all possible touchpoints
and devices where people generate and store sensitive information.
Ryan’s strategic and innovative mindset will propel the company
forward through today’s exciting shift in business – utilizing and
securing AI for competitive advantage,” said Brian Decker, Partner
at Francisco Partners.
“This is a full circle moment for me, returning to lead
Forcepoint after spending nearly a decade of my early career at
Websense in corporate and product development roles,” said Windham.
“I’ve worked closely with Manny to advance Forcepoint’s engineering
in language models and generative AI, pushing data security
innovation. I look forward to continuing collaboration across the
company to help our customers and partners worldwide securely
accelerate their transformation strategies for the future.”
About Forcepoint
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and
governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform
makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of
sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are
working. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint creates safe, trusted
environments for customers and their employees in more than 150
countries. Engage with Forcepoint on www.forcepoint.com, Twitter
and LinkedIn.
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